Day: July 10, 2017

BIRMINGHAM, England — I gripped the phone, trying to make out the words on the crackling line. There was a moment of silence before the voice at the other end spoke: “I’m sorry, but your son is dead.” It was the call I had feared for months. How was I going to tell Rasheed’s sisters

Last week the Chronicle of Higher Education wrote a lengthy report on the curious case of Keith Fink, a part-time lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles. UCLA refused to renew his contract, writing in a letter that his teaching did not “meet the standard of excellence.” Fink cried foul, arguing that his free-speech

ISIS has been defeated. That’s the official word out of Iraq. But don’t count it out just yet. We beat ISIS twice before. Once in its previous incarnation as Al Qaeda in Iraq and in its even earlier incarnation as Saddam Hussein’s regime whose Sunni Baathists went on to play a crucial role in ISIS. Each time

“We perform jihad here [Syria and Iraq] while our eyes are upon al-Quds (Jerusalem). We fight here, while our goal is Rome.”We will not rest from our jihad until we are under the olive trees of Rome, after we destroy the filthy house called the White House. Today we are upon the doorstep of a